{"id":9316,"date":"2013-12-10T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9316"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:22:46","slug":"paypal-president-david-marcus-bitcoin-is-good-nfc-is-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/paypal-president-david-marcus-bitcoin-is-good-nfc-is-bad","title":{"rendered":"PayPal president David Marcus: Bitcoin is good, NFC is bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

The leader of the payments business looks to the future and says Bitcoin is a good idea \u2014 but not yet actually a currency. Tap-to-pay, meanwhile, is a dud.<\/p>\n

by Stephen Shankland<\/a><\/div>\n
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PARIS \u2014 Online payments will look completely different in the next decade, and Bitcoin has a better chance at revolutionizing commerce than the NFC tap-to-pay technology, PayPal President David Marcus predicted Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really like Bitcoin. I own bitcoins,\u201d Marcus said at the LeWeb conference here. However, he believes people today don\u2019t correctly understand what bitcoins actually are, and he\u2019s not yet ready to let people link their bitcoin wallets with their PayPal accounts.<\/p>\n

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The leader of the payments business looks to the future and says Bitcoin is a good idea \u2014 but not yet actually a currency. Tap-to-pay, meanwhile, is a dud. by Stephen Shankland PARIS \u2014 Online payments will look completely different in the next decade, and Bitcoin has a better chance at revolutionizing commerce than the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,43,39,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-business","category-economics","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47367,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions\/47367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}